Downtown St. Paul: 2 injured as shots fired from car into SUV

Police stopped a vehicle attempting to drop off two shooting victims at Regions Hospital, in the wake of gunfire in downtown St. Paul on Friday evening.

Witnesses reported a half-dozen shots being fired by someone in a green sedan into a white SUV about 8:45 p.m. near Seventh and Robert streets.

Minutes later, the SUV dropped off two men with gunshot wounds at the emergency room entrance of Regions Hospital before fleeing into the hospital's underground parking garage. Squads arrived in time to stop the vehicle and its driver. No one else was in the SUV.

The two men who were dropped off had apparent gunshot wounds, which were not life-threatening, police said.

The sedan from which the shots were fired fled north on Robert Street. Police had no one else in custody late Friday.